FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) · Evidence & Implementation Kit
Show your examiner that your cybersecurity maturity matches your risk, with the FFIEC CAT as controls you can adopt.
Every domain of the assessment handed to you as an adopt-ready control, with the maturity nuance, the exact evidence an examiner examines, and the finding they most often raise.
Assessment-ready in a weekend, not a quarter.
Here is the honest situation. Financial institution examiners expect cybersecurity maturity commensurate with inherent risk, and the FFIEC CAT is the common language for showing it. The hard part is running it: determining your inherent risk profile, then evidencing maturity across governance, controls, threat intelligence, third-party management and incident resilience, all in the form an examiner reviews. Doing that from the tool takes weeks, and gaps surface late.
This Kit removes the interpretation. It is the FFIEC CAT inherent risk profile and the five maturity domains as adopt-ready controls you personalize in a weekend.
What you get, the moment you buy
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Inherent risk profile controls. Determine the inherent cyber risk your institution carries, the baseline the maturity domains are judged against.
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Cybersecurity maturity controls. Every domain, from cyber risk management and oversight to controls, external dependency management and incident resilience, as adopt-ready controls with the evidence an examiner reviews.
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CAT Control Matrix, pre-built. Every control in a working spreadsheet, ready to record your maturity level and evidence location.
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Gap & Readiness Assessment. Score each control and the workbook tells you your maturity as a single percentage, and exactly what to fix next.
Grounded in the FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, its inherent risk profile and the five cybersecurity maturity domains, with the additive maturity levels called out. Editable Word and Excel files.
Maturity matched to risk
The FFIEC CAT is not pass or fail; it is about alignment. Your cybersecurity maturity should be commensurate with your inherent risk. This Kit gives you both the inherent risk profile and the maturity domains, so you can show an examiner your cybersecurity is proportionate to the risk you carry.
What one control looks like
This is a Cybersecurity Controls domain control, infrastructure security and hardening. All 35 are built to this depth.
FFIEC-16 Infrastructure Security and Hardening CYBERSECURITY CONTROLS
Adopt this control
[Institution] hardens infrastructure using approved secure configuration baselines, segments networks to isolate sensitive systems, and enforces boundary controls such as firewalls and access restrictions between trust zones. Management monitors configurations for drift, restricts administrative interfaces, and reviews rule sets and segmentation on a defined schedule to preserve preventive protection.
Evidence an examiner examines
- Approved secure configuration baselines by platform
- Network segmentation and data flow diagrams
- Firewall and boundary rule review records
- Configuration drift detection reports
Common finding they raise: Segmentation is designed at build time but never revalidated, and firewall rules accumulate without periodic review.
Why this is not another template pack
- The evidence is the point. A maturity spreadsheet is not evidence. This tells you exactly what an examiner examines and the finding they raise, for every domain, at the maturity your risk requires.
- Both sides of the tool. The inherent risk profile and the five maturity domains, so you can demonstrate alignment, not just activity.
- Built on a mapped compliance corpus, not one person's opinion, from a graph of thousands of controls across standards.
- It compounds. The CAT maps to the NIST CSF and FFIEC handbook expectations, so this work supports your wider examination readiness.
Who buys this
Banks, credit unions and other financial institutions and their information security and risk teams, boards seeking assurance, and consultants preparing institutions for examination. Whether it is a first assessment or a maturity uplift, you save weeks and walk in with the risk profile and evidence structured.
By the end of the weekend you will have
✓ A control for the inherent risk profile and every maturity domain
✓ A completed CAT control matrix
✓ The evidence an examiner examines
✓ Your inherent risk profile and maturity anchored
✓ A maturity percentage and a fix list
✓ The common findings closed before an examination
Common questions
Is it really editable? Yes. Word and Excel files you own and adapt. No portal, no subscription.
Is the CAT mandatory? The FFIEC CAT is a voluntary tool, though examiners widely reference it. This Kit helps you run it and evidence the maturity your risk requires.
Does it cover inherent risk? Yes. The inherent risk profile is included, because maturity is judged against it.
Does it map to the NIST CSF? Yes. The CAT aligns to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, so this work supports both.
What if it is not for me? A 30-day money-back guarantee.
Do not meet an examiner without showing maturity matches risk.
Running the CAT is fast with the Kit. It is instant, and it is guaranteed.
Add it to your cart and be assessment-ready this weekend.
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